16% of Dartmouth businesses have no website
I measured. Every month my crawler checks 413 Dartmouth businesses across ten everyday categories and audits every website it finds. This page is what the data says, and what I build for the businesses that want to be on the right side of it.
Dartmouth isn’t Halifax: it has its own main streets, its own loyal customers, and its own search results. People on this side of the harbour search “Dartmouth” when they want things nearby, and Google rewards the businesses that clearly belong here.
I don’t guess about the state of Dartmouth’s web presence: I measure it. The same crawler that keeps my own sites honest checks 413 local businesses across ten everyday categories, restaurants to roofers, and audits every website it finds for speed, mobile readiness, HTTPS, and the technical signals Google reads. The numbers on this page are from September 2026, and they refresh automatically.
Where Dartmouth businesses are losing online
- 36% of roofing companies have no website at all: 8 of the 22 I checked.
- 29% of electricians have no website at all: 10 of the 35 I checked.
- 26% of plumbers have no website at all: 8 of the 31 I checked.
- 8% of existing sites aren’t mobile-ready, on the devices nearly every local search happens on.
- 37% give Google no structured data, so search engines only half-understand what the business even is.
- 10% of listed websites are dead or unreachable, sending customers to an error page.
Aggregate numbers only: I never publish results for individual businesses. Want to know where yours stands? Run the same audit yourself, free.
Dartmouth web health by industry
Every category I track, updated monthly. "Not mobile-ready" and "no structured data" are percentages of businesses that have a website at all.
| Industry | Checked | No website | Not mobile-ready | No structured data |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurants | 67 | 1% | 6% | 38% |
| Hair salons | 58 | 17% | 0% | 40% |
| Auto repair shops | 55 | 22% | 9% | 42% |
| General contractors | 47 | 17% | 8% | 33% |
| Accountants | 36 | 17% | 13% | 30% |
| Dentists | 36 | 11% | 9% | 13% |
| Electricians | 35 | 29% | 4% | 48% |
| Plumbers | 31 | 26% | 22% | 48% |
| Landscapers | 26 | 4% | 12% | 40% |
| Roofing companies | 22 | 36% | 7% | 57% |
Sites that pass every check above
Every site I build for a Dartmouth business clears the audit this page is based on by construction: mobile-first, HTTPS, structured data Google can read, and load times under a second on the same AWS and Cloudflare infrastructure that runs ERstat.ca at 100k+ visits a month. Business email on your own domain included, flat written quote before any work starts, and everything happens remotely: phone, email, and Google Meet.
Also serving: Halifax · Sydney · Glace Bay · Truro · Bedford · New Glasgow · Lower Sackville · Kentville · New Minas · Bridgewater · Yarmouth · Amherst · Antigonish · Port Hawkesbury. See every city I track.
Questions from Dartmouth businesses
Does Dartmouth need its own strategy, or does a Halifax site cover it?
Searches with “Dartmouth” in them are their own market, and Google localizes results by where the searcher is standing. A Dartmouth business that says Dartmouth clearly, in its page titles and structured data, beats a generic Halifax-area site for those searches.
My site exists but fails your checks. Rebuild or repair?
Sometimes it’s a rebuild, sometimes it’s a week of repairs: HTTPS, mobile layout, structured data, speed. I’ll look at what you have and tell you honestly which it is before you spend anything.
What do you need from me to start?
The questionnaire on the websites page takes about ten minutes: what the business does, what you have, what you need. I come back with an honest read and a flat written quote.
Be findable in Dartmouth.
Start with the questionnaire or a free 20-minute call. Flat written quote before anything begins.